Gaffer Tape

Soooo... is the thread about princesses yet?

Zombies kept up the interest a good long while.

THREAD IS OPEN!

No, '70s kid, a '90s kid would, like, soooo, like, talk like this.  That is an example of a '00s kid.

bkev said:

"u know ur a? 90s kid when u watch fantasia" -youtube. Oh the stupidity

Wow.  That is just wrong on so many different levels...  Let me count.  Let's see...  I found at least 8 different things wrong with it in the fields of syntax, punctuation, spelling, and logic.

Do Homestar Runner lines count as random thoughts?

Why thank you.  To tell you the truth, though, I actually really like "Turnabout Intruder" and might like to do a serious analysis of it some day (although sfdebris has already done a great review of it).  Its bizarre premise that women can't captain starships is indeed... well, bizarre, especially considering that it's a Gene Roddenberry story.  But I love the concept of someone taking over the captain's body.  I love love love Shatner's extremely hammy performance ("MUTINYYYYYYYYY!") as well as the performances of all the rest of the characters.  And, most importantly of all, it's an episode that makes me think.  Granted, that requires me to substitute alternate premises to the episode to do so (such as that Janice is television's first transgendered storyline, or that Janice, batshit insane that she is, has taken feminism to its dangerous extreme by pawning off her own incompetence as just an act of sexism).  I'm not trying to apologize for the episode, because it certainly does deserve its criticism.  But if good Star Trek, or good science fiction, or good fiction, is supposed to make you think about things, then "Turnabout Intruder" does succeed for me on that level.

EDIT:  Oh, as my video should show, it also makes me think a little TOO much about how that whole Captain's Log thing works.  Janice in Kirk's body is making log entries, and so is Kirk in Janice's body.  How in the holy hell does that work?!  How does the whole log thing work at all?  How do people not access this?  DOES NOT COMPUTE!!!

Indeed.  I actually had never seen it until about a month ago.  Shame on me.  But I'm now glad I did.

A couple of new additions to the lineup.

First, my latest entry for the Who Reviews the Reviewers Contest.  This challenge was to review something at least ten years older than me with an emphasis on historical context.  I chose Sunset Boulevard.

The second was just a little pet project of mine.  I really liked my "News Marches Forward" segment, so I decided to do another one.  In my mind, after newsreels were replaced by television news broadcasts, the News Marches Forward program found new life shifting into educational filmstrips, starting with this little ditty, riffing on the final episode of Star Trek:

Why Women Can't Captain Starships

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

I'm very sorry to hear about your troubles, Dayv.  I knew about it as soon as you made mention of it in Random Thoughts, but I haven't said anything until now because I never knew what to say.  I still don't.  I apologize for not vocalizing my support sooner, but I have thinking about you.  I wish you the very best.

But it's a first person shooter.  It's not as though you'll actually see him all that often...

Oooh... illegal coin deal blue ball!

I'd say just send a PM to Moth3r saying exactly that and then let nature take its course.  Then, there you go.  You did what you were asked, and you can truthfully tell him you did, and now it's no longer your issue.

But, um... what makes you think he's not going to read this?

Wow, I've never done inventory on my collection.  Also, I almost exclusively collect Amuricuhn!  It's been a while since I did any real collecting, but I have a pretty nice assortment of coins and bills throughout the 20th century, many of which I collected and bought on my own, many others I inherited from my grandfather.

I'm not a fan of FPSs at all, but I'm honestly shocked that Wii hasn't become THE console for FPS with its control scheme.  It's been a couple of years now since I last played Twilight Princess, a game that wasn't even designed for Wii, but I was amazed how much easier and more intuitive it was to aim ranged weapons with the Wiimote than with an analog stick.

Of course not.  Prequel has two Es, not just one.

I don't think that having Judi Dench screws up the reboot aspect.  Since a reboot is taking all that has been continuity and wiping the slate clean, M can be anybody... even Judi Dench.  Hell, they could have kept the entire previous cast and just pretended that none of the prior events had happened.

So it went to the Superman Returns school of rebooting then, huh?

Despite the fact that I was born there, screw Chicago.  An s goes after any singular possessive.

xhonzi said:

Therefore, different M - she just happens to be played by the same actress.

Is that more likely than "new Bond, same M"?

I guess that depends on whether or not you believe the fan-theory that "James Bond" is a legacy title in-universe, given to different agents.  If that's the case, then it very well could be  "new Bond, same M."

But if James Bond is just a person and just one person, then that has to be a different M as well.

Actually, wouldn't it be TV's's?

Damnit, shawnzieeee!

In the scene that introduced the new M, she made references to the relationship Bond had with her predecessor, and how his womanizing ways are common knowledge.  He's obviously known by Moneypenny and Q (the latter of whom is the same actor).

So the possibilities are:

1.  He's the same Bond.

2.  He's a long-established MI6 agent who just inherited the role of Bond.

3.  He's an established Bond, but in a continuity we haven't seen up to this point (ie. he's had previous Bond adventures, but we never saw them).

But he's very definitely not "green."

RE:  xhonzi

In GoldenEye, Dench is specifically stated to be a new M, while Brosnan is heavily implied to still be the same Bond.

No, actually, we call it a soy.

If I only had a nickel for every time someone did that to me...

Dumb Dora is soooooooo dumb....